The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Audiobook (Free)
- David Wallace-Wells
- 8 h 34 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2019-02-19
Summary:
#1 NEW YORK Occasions BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”-Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
NAMED ONE OF THE BETTER BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review • Time • NPR • Toronto Star • GQ • THE DAYS Literary Dietary supplement • THE BRAND NEW York Public Collection • Kirkus Review articles
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your panic about global warming is usually about The Uninhabitable Globe: Lifestyle After Warming dominated by doubts of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the top of what terrors are possible-food shortages, refugee emergencies, environment wars and financial devastation.
An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Planting season” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the longer term and a deep breathing on how that future can look to those coping with it-the techniques warming guarantees to transform global politics, this is of technology and nature in today’s world, the sustainability of capitalism as well as the trajectory of human progress.
The Uninhabitable Globe is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was taken to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility in order to avoid it today belongs to an individual generation-today’s.
Compliment for The Uninhabitable Earth
“The Uninhabitable Globe is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is medical, but its mode is Aged Testament. The reserve is normally a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes which will quickly engulf our warming planet.”-Farhad Manjoo, THE BRAND NEW York Times
“Riveting . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s format of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You ought to be, too.”-The Economist
“Powerful and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells offers resolved to offer something apart from the typical narrative of climate transformation. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal vocabulary of climatology’ and only lush, moving prose.”-Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“The book has potential to become this generation’s Silent Springtime.”-The Washington Post
“The Uninhabitable Globe, which has turn into a best seller, taps in to the underlying emotion of your day: fear. . . . I motivate people to read this book.”-Alan Weisman, THE BRAND NEW York Review of Books
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